Cisco offers a threat-focused next-generation firewall (NGFW), the ASA 5500-X Series. The ASA 5500 Series platforms can run either the Cisco ASA Firewall or Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). The series features appliances in a variety of form factors, including standalone options for small and midsize businesses, ruggedized appliances for extreme environments, midsize appliances for security at the Internet edge, and high-performance appliances for enterprise data centers.
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Cisco ASA 5500-X pricing starts at ~$400 and scales up to $20,000 for higher capacity appliances.
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Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides a robust product, and one of its advantages over other devices is Cisco's support. The devices have a long lifespan and rarely fail. They are easy to configure and manage, and do they do not require any additional licensing to …
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Senior MS Security Engineer in Information Technology at NTT Ltd. (Information Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
The network is homogenous to Cisco and the integration with Cisco products is very easy (e.g. Identity Services Engine). As I am a certified engineer in Cisco Security, it feels very easy to handle Cisco products especially as more and more support docs are available across the …
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Network System Administrator in Information Technology at NCM Associates (Professional Training & Coaching, 201-500 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
I like how everything is separated within the Cisco ASA vs the Meraki MX. The Meraki MX doesn't allow for specific network objects or ACLs to be manually created like the Cisco ASA does. The Cisco ASA is easier to configure new network routes to an existing network compared to …
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Systems Engineer in Information Technology at The M9 Group (Computer Networking, 11-50 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Palos are great but they are a bit more expensive. Cisco ASA 5500-Xs are very competitive budget-wise. Small to medium offices can easily afford Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirewPOWER services compared to Palo Altos. At the end of the day cisco even though more affordable still get …
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Senior Network Architect in Corporate at Prosperity 24/7 (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
The Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is a full-blown firewall whereas the security feature license on the ISR 1K router is a lot easy to configure. To be honest I'm not a great fan of Zone-based firewalls but I guess familiarity develops with how much you use a product.
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IT Network Specialist in Information Technology at Wood's Homes (Non-profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Meraki MX is a much robust product, however in terms of licenses, Meraki MX you need to pay a per-year basic subscription that in 3 years surpass the value of the ASA 5500-X with features that you may not need. This is for a branch firewall not for the Main firewall.
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Sr Team Leader in Information Technology at Dish TV (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using the pfSense but lots of security features were missing and lots of bugs in the firewall. We had faced lots of issues with pfSense. The configuration is very difficult. Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is very easy to configure and manage firewall and the …
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Business Analyst in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using Cisco ASA but security features were missing so we discussed with Cisco and upgraded with FirePOWER Services. We are using all the features like AMP, IPS, sandbox etc for network security. We have very critical client data so clients want the security for our …
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project manager in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using Cisco ASA but lots of security features were missing so we decided to purchase the FirePOWER Services to protect our layer 7 attacks and good control on layer 3 to 4. With the help of firepower services, you can put more control on user traffic.
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Project Lead in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco ASA is a good firewall but a lot of security features are missing so Cisco introduced [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services]. It provides advanced security for any type of cyber attack. [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] is also good [to] stop ransomware …
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it head in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using Cisco ASA in our organization but lots of security services were missing so we purchased the [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services]. It provides us application layer security and deep packet scan features for protecting our organization from any type of cyber …
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project in Information Technology at DashClicks (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using Cisco ASA 5525 but lots of security features were missing so we decided to upgrade with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services. Now we are using advanced features like sandbox, IPS, malware protection, URL filtering, etc.
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Project Manager in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using Cisco ASA without firepower but after some cyber attacks I purchased the firepower services and this is really good. now my organization is protected from any type of cyber attack.
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System Administrator in Information Technology at MattsenKumar LLC (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using pfSence but we were not happy with the service. They were not providing deep-level security so we purchased the Cisco ASA with FirePOWER and there are lots of advanced features are sandbox, malware protection, and URL filtering helps to increase the your network …
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System Engineer in Information Technology at Flipkart India (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We were using Cisco ASA before in our environment but when it comes to advance security features it doesn't have to provide that much reliability. After using Cisco ASA 5500-X with Firepower provides high-security features such as Sandboxing & Deep Scanning. It also provides …
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Shift Supervisor in Information Technology at MattsenKumar LLC (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
In comparison to Sophos Firewall, Cisco ASA 5500-X is still better with Firepower services. Reason is first its support and second its scalability. It has catered the request for all the users in our company without any throughput issue while using the Cisco AnyConnect remote …
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Network Consultant in Information Technology at Upwork (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco ASA FirePOWER provides us lots of features like sandboxing and advanced malware protection which provides us more security. But lots of options are missing and more complicated in Sophos XG Firewall. You will face lots of issues during implementation in existing …
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Executive System Admin in Information Technology at Freelancer (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Previous],] I was using the [pfSense] in my organization but when i switched to [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] I realized there are lots of issue and missing security features in [pfSense]. The deployment and configuration is very easy as compare to [pfSense]. I …
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CEO & MD in Corporate at Gurjartech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
I used pfSense open-source tool in which technical support and documentation is not available like Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services firewall. so I choose ASA just because this version of cisco ASA is really offering new advanced-level security in the normal budget for …
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Senior Technical Consultant in Information Technology at iValue InfoSolutions Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco has been industry for a long time and it's a trustworthy name. Cisco ASA 5500-X FirePOWER has the best Customer Support and robust hardware, user friendly configurations, [and] configuration documentations [are] available openly on internet. Cisco has also [been] named a …
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Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
The [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] does compete okay when compared to other devices. This model is begging to age and does not perform as well as the newer models but that is to be expected. I think their interface is okay but again I think ASDM is aging more …
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Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco technically has better support on things like VPN, but the Fortinet seems slightly cheaper.
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Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Minnesota Senate (Government Administration, 201-500 employees)
Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
I have some familiarity with other products in the firewall space, but I feel that Cisco offers the best ability to integrate all of our data sources together, being that the majority of the infrastructure is Cisco. That being said, Check Point, Fortinet, F5 and others offer …
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This firewall is best suited for the network edge/perimeter deployment. The next gen features works very well and the remote access VPN is also very much suitable for the organizations which have a huge user base working remotely. The Remote Access VPN is very much customizable and the authentication integration option like LDAP and RADIUS provides and addon.
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Ever since we installed Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services we have never had to deal with an attack. We can see in the logs almost every day hackers attempting to break into our networks and failing. We also have the ability to blacklist every IP address that attempts to break into our firewalls
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Cisco firepower provides automatation for an organisations security operations to detect and stop the most advanced threats fast. It also assists in preventing attacks in using intelligence and innovative solutions.
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We have never had an outage caused by firewall failure. We have had a few outages caused by the internet failing or cloud applications going offline but never a firewall breaking down. When making changes we have a very strong change control, major software updates are always carried out out of working hours. At places where we have two firewalls in HA, we are able to do upgrades in working ours and the users will never know that an upgrade is taking place, that how great these firewalls are
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The Cisco ASA 5500X with Firepower performance needs consideration before deploying. Although the solution is Pay as you grow, adding additional features to the system has a negative impact on overall throughput. I would more like now only to deploy the Cisco FPR units as they have better performance and will last the test of time.
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I would recommend the purchase of the Smartnet 24x7 service in the case of a unit and the Smartnet 8x5NBD in the case of only one appliance installed on site. This service is important to always have the latest firmware updates, corrective updates and especially the hardware warranty and maintenance service in case of problems. The service is done by phone or on the official Cisco website and I can say that it is very good and efficient.
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We implemented a centralized management of all our Cisco ASA 5500-x with FirePOWER Services so that we can have a holistic view of all our sites in London and other European countries. This also helps when making changes, instead of login on to each firewall we can use Firepower Management Center (FMC) to central deploy changes across all devices
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Previous],] I was using the [pfSense] in my organization but when i switched to [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] I realized there are lots of issue and missing security features in [pfSense]. The deployment and configuration is very easy as compare to [pfSense]. I highly recommend this product to everyone.
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Security was enhanced on the data traffic shared with the vendors due to the use of VPNs
Inbound attacks were mostly blocked on the edge and saved a lot of resources (which could had been used in case of attacks getting successful on the application servers)
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